Blue Vision (16 Viewers)

[morpheus_xx]

Idea is, that the the fanart size is fixed based on the active "view"."30715D73-4205-417f-80AA-E82F0834171F" is the ID for "Audio".

This way it won't work (or at least it's not intended this way).

Maybe start from another point of view:
The screens that are showing MediaItems are coming originally from the MediaPlugin: https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...ce/UI/UiComponents/Media/Skin/default/screens.

You see 5 AudioFilterBy... xaml screens and one https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...edia/Skin/default/screens/AudioShowItems.xaml.

This screen includes the known "SimpleShowItems.xaml".

So if you like to adjust only Audio item's screen a valid approach would be to copy this screen into your skin and modify it your way.
You could consider to change the SimpleShowItems.xaml as well, i.e. adding "parameters" for right side client area size. This could be done by:
1) Defining a resource inside AudioShowItems (<ResourceWrapper x:Key="Cover_Width" Resource="500"/>)
2) Using a {DynamicResource Cover_Width} markup for the right side Width property

This way you can have a generic master page for all items (SimpleShowItems), where the "parent" screens can define different resources (widths), i.e. Audio 500, Movie 400.

Does this help?

 

[ge2301]

Thanks a lot! The solution seems to work and is also really easy
Can we clone you? I think we need a second morpheus for all the questions

 

[MJGraf]

Yep, that's easy and works like:
var morpheus_xx_2 = morpheus_xx.DeepCopy();
Sorry, don't know how it works in xaml so you'll need a c# compiler for that one

 

[ge2301]

I maybe was wrong: now all content (thumbs, posters,...) should be loaded via Fanart service. I removed loading of ThumbnailAspect by default.
Can you open fiddler or similar? You should be able to trace all requests of fanart loading. Maybe you see the cause this way.

@MJGraf
Did you take a look on the problem with the fanart? There was the issue, that before showing the fanart for around 0.2 seconds another picture is showing up.
In Titanium it is not visible. Our guess was maybe due to the loading time of the moving fanart

Would be great to solve all fanart related issues at once for BlueVision and ApolloOne.
Today I'll push a lot of changes for BlueVision. Plan is to finish all views for Series, Movies, Audio and Images. Skin would be fully usable then and only some modifications after MIA rework need to be added

 

[ge2301]

Hi together,

Currently the grid view for videos and episodes looks as in attached screenshot.


I'm want to update the view today. Since there are usually no posters for episodes and general videos and thumbs are in the video aspect ratio, I'd propose following sketched style for the thumbnails in gridview.


Are there any concerns or further ideas? The Series or future Saison view won't be affected, only episodes and general videos

 

[MJGraf]

Did you take a look on the problem with the fanart? There was the issue, that before showing the fanart for around 0.2 seconds another picture is showing up.

No, sorry, not yet. And I'm not sure if I'm the right one to do that (I'm a "backend guy" - no clue about xaml...). In any case I'd like to first finish the Network-RA-Rework and the NfoMovieMDE. If no one has found the time to look into it until then, please remind me of it and I'll see what I can do

 

[ge2301]

No, sorry, not yet. And I'm not sure if I'm the right one to do that (I'm a "backend guy" - no clue about xaml...). In any case I'd like to first finish the Network-RA-Rework and the NfoMovieMDE. If no one has found the time to look into it until then, please remind me of it and I'll see what I can do

If I understood correctly it can be only an issue in the FanArtHandler, for sure not in xaml. But no problem, problems don't run away, we can catch it later

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.

Since there are usually no posters for episodes and general videos

Do you know my tool MKV Buddy? This is fully automatically doing lots of "nice" things to videos. One of those nice things is to generate fanart from stills, something like this...
Poster (folder.jpg):

and background from a different video (fanart.jpg):

I've made this for (nearly) every video I have, not fitting into movies or series section. Only takes some seconds each and a whole folder of videos can be processed on one mouse click..

Are there any concerns or further ideas?

I really would like to have those diy fanart shown in skin similar to the "normal" movies view. In MP1 this was easy due to separate plugins for movies (Moving Pictures) and such videos (MyVideos) but in MP2 I can not separate them from "regular" movies that easy. So I need a kind of "Poster and Background" view in the videos section based on the LocalFanartProvider...

 

[ge2301]

Do you know my tool MKV Buddy? This is fully automatically doing lots of "nice" things to videos. One of those nice things is to generate fanart from stills, something like this...
Poster (folder.jpg):

Yes, I know your tool and have tried it. I finished the view update. Your fanarts from folder.jpg should be also visible now with correct aspect ratio.
So far this works only with Episodes in SERIES and VIDEOS. Currently Morpheus_xx is making some trials to add user defined categories in which videos can be tagged during import.
I'll add screenshots of the changes and push everything later

 

[ge2301]

Changes in version 0.4

• Main Group menu reacts on focus, no click/press necessary -> faster navigation. Thanks @osre !
  • Planned changes
    • Active symbol also highlighted, when leaving the Main Group Menu
    • Using keyboard or remote control will bring user always to active item when reentering Main Group Menu

• Audio view: FanArt has correct aspect ratio, space between item list and FanArt is same as in other views. Thanks @morpheus_xx

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• Series view: MediaInformation available
  • Style same as for movies
  • Saison and Episode # shown
  • Saison view with banners
  • Episode view with adjusted grid size (16:9 thumbnails instead of posters, because usually frames from actual video file are used as thumbnail)

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• Video view:
  • Video view with adjusted grid size (16:9 thumbnails instead of posters, because usually frames from actual video file are used as thumbnail)

• Improved import of FanArts. At first it is checked, if local FanArts as folder.jpg are existing. If so, those are used. Thanks @MJGraf

Download version added in second post